Ep. 158: Tracking Big Woods Bucks with Hal Blood

East Meets West Hunt

On this episode of the East Meets West Hunt podcast, Beau Martonik is joined by Hal Blood of Big Woods Bucks in Maine. Hal owns an outfitting business and has been successfully tracking mature whitetail deer in the big woods of Maine for a long time. We talk about sign post rubs, community scrapes, identifying buck tracks, getting on a track, and persistence day after day to be successful tracking a big woods mountain buck.

Topics:

Background on Hal

Habitat in northern Maine

Sign post rubs

Annual or community scrapes

Identifying buck tracks

Getting on a track and following it

Persistence day after day

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